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Is The End Near? May 13th, 2008
The New Food-Politics Reader Isn't Optimistic
To put it lightly: the food system is out of whack. So much so that we're conjuring up Thomas Malthus, a British economist not known for optimism. At the turn of the 19th Century, he predicted that a growing...more
Carbon Footprints March 3rd, 2008
Learn about carbon footprints and then calculate your own
The Ethicurean had an interesting blog post, Thinking About Carbon "Foodprints" on March 2nd about a recent New Yorker article that explores the topic. The basic problem: how we make and get our food produces...more
What Exactly is a Carbon Footprint? February 29th, 2008
And how do we put a price on carbon emissions?
This is a really interesting article by Michael Specter in a recent New Yorker about how difficult it is to really quantify the actual carbon footprint of products because there is no current standard for...more
